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Adds script light throwing weapons to the game. Also integrates them into the leveled lists and allows them to be used by followers and NPCs.

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Dragonborn

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Assets from this mod may not be used for "for profit" work.

The 1st and 3rd person view animation packages have animations created by h1zchan. Permission must be acquired from h1zchan for the animations.

File credits

Madrilous for the original mod inspirationNyQuilKY for the meshes from which the animated nifs in this mod are inspired byh1zchan for the new throwing animations for 2.02 BETA which can be found hereHothtrooper and Ecks source code for IAv7 wasn't in any way copied in this mod. I just used it as a reference for how to figure out how to dynamically add items to leveled lists via AddForm.Ousnius for making the nif converter for Skyrim Special Edition which my mod neededFore for making FNIS and providing WONDERFUL documentation on how to make a FNIS dependent modZartar for his Behavior Tool which made alternate 1st Person Animations possibleChristianerding2 for his information on how to fix an ammo recovery bug for version G.04Gopher for inspiring me to continue development of this mod and making very entertaining Let's Play videosThe SKSE Team for making Papyrus scripting more powerfulschlangster and the SkyUI team for SkyUI and the ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL documentation of the development kit for itMeshes and textures for axe and knife made by yours truly after two days of hard work.

Both straight donations and premium membership donations accepted

I've been a fan of Madrilous's Throwing Weapons mods for a long time. The problem is that they were too script heavy for my machine to handle quickly. This mod is a fix for that and implements throwing weapons in a very "script light" fashion.

=========Features:=========

The weapons show up as ammo in your inventory, have weight, and are equipped to the right hand. NPCs and followers can also use the weapons. They're added to the leveled lists dynamically using scripts so it can maintain compatibility with all other mods.

The damage of the weapons increases in relation to the player's one-handed (or marksmanship) skill and level it up on successful hits. They also cost stamina to throw and damage can be doubled or halved depending on how much stamina you have when you throw. Damage from the throwing weapons also benenfits from sneak attacks and is reduced by the target's armor rating or can be completely negated with a shield or ward.

As of Version 2.0, new grenade weapons have been added. These weapons can be crafted using a new power you recieve called "craft grenades." You start off knowing only how to craft a couple of them and have to collect formulas that can be found on enemies, in dungeon chests, and occasionally in alchemy shops.

Currently, these are the weapons available:

Throwing Knives:These are the fastest to throw, do weak damage, and fly at a medium distance. Weight is 0.1. They lightly stagger opponents and also benefit from added damage during a sneak attack.

Throwing Axes:These do the most damage, fly the shortest distance, and have a medium throwing speed. Weight is 5. They stagger opponents on hit.

Javelins:These fly the farthest, do moderate damage, and but have the slowest throwing speed. Weight is 9. They heavily stagger opponents on hit.

Oil Pots:Dwarven oil pots that lay down a burning slick of oil that damages anyone that is caught in them. Weight is 0.25.

Frost Potion Grenades:A bottle of ice cold liquid that freezes opponents solid on contact and does frost damage. It's also available as a poison that can be found in alchemy shops and be applied to weapons and arrows. Weight is 0.5.

Smoke Bombs:Bombs that stagger opponents caught in the initial explosion and release smoke clouds that blind opponents and can be used as cover. Weight is 1.

Grenades:The most powerful throwing weapon of all! Explodes with massive force and heavily damages anyone caught in the explosion after a few seconds. Be very afraid when you hear the trademark sound of this weapon's burning fuse. However, if you're quick enough (and brave enough) these weapons can be disarmed by activating them. Weight is 3.

If using the FNIS optional add-on, install it via NMM after installing the main file and overwrite the main files. Then run FNIS. You should get a notification in-game that the FNIS add-on was installed properly.

NOTE: If updating from version 3.0 to 3.01 I highly recommend that you unequip any throwing weapons in your current save before updating to 3.01.

===============Uninstallation:===============Use NMM to uninstall

or

Remove the bsa/loose files and esp file

==============Compatibility:==============Mods that automatically loot items off the ground like Jaxonz Smart Looter are INCOMPATIBLE with my mod and will cause CTDs. Due to how the game was designed, collectible projectiles if fired from a spell will cause CTDs if looted in the vanilla fashion. Normally, my mod bypasses this by giving you a perk to handle the throwing weapons' projectiles and prevents normal activation.Mods that automatically loot items off the ground will need compatibility patches to tell them to ignore projectiles from my mod. A possible workaround is to turn off the feature that auto-loots projectiles.

Mods that automatically hide or unequip ammunition like Auto Hide Ammo and Auto Unequip Ammo will also have issues like invisible ammunition and weird behavior on equipping weapons. For "Auto Hide Ammo" check the "compatibility" section of that mod for a workaround.

Also, if using the Alternate 1st Person Anims option, mods that conflict with the 1st person "0_master.hkx" "magicbehavior.hkx" and "sprintbehavior.hkx" will be incompatible.

Besides that, this mod should be 100% compatible with anything and everything (including mods that modify perk trees!).

==================Recommended Mods:==================FNIS!!!!!!!!In the optional files, there is a download that adds new 3rd person animations for throwing weapons and utilizes FNIS alternate animations to make them work. Great for those who want to keep their magic casting animations unchanged.

SkyUIVersion G.04 adds an MCM menu with which you can customize damage and ammo recovery chance with.

Belt-Fastened Quivers by CheskoVersion 3.04 has a patch for Chesko's Belt-Fastened quivers in the "Miscellaneous" section. The javelin's are on the back like arrows and with Chesko's mod will be worn across the lower back. All other throwing weapons will be worn on the lower back.

Any modthat allows you to controlfollower combat styleSince the throwing weapons in this mod are scrolls, this means followers can use them. A follower mod that allows you to control combat style means you can control the frequency that they use throwing weapons which is very useful! To get the maximum amount of "throwage" out of your followers, give them a spell-sword or mage combat style since the weapons are treated as magic by the games AI.

Enemy AI OverHaul---Revenge Of the EnemiesI tested the weapons with this mod on and it makes fighting your enemies even more difficult. They also seem to love spamming the new throwing weapons added to their inventories with this mod on (I'm not sure if that's also true in the vanilla game, but that was definitely the case with this mod on). Even barring that, this mod really makes fighting enemies more challenging which is great.

Madrilous's ThrowingWeapons ModsYep! Believe it or not, this mod is 100% compatible with the mod that inspired it! If you want a more robust throwing weapons mod and have a PC that can handle it or even just a larger variety of weapons, feel free to download his mod. I won't judge you... :P

Spears By SoolieI'm pretty sure you guys now know about this mod via the hot files. I've known about it since Soolie posted a demo of it on Youtube a while back. His work is quite impressive and also adds javelins to Skyrim without needing to turn them into scrolls like my mod. If you want to use a more robust mod that adds javelins, I highly suggest his work. In addition, my mod should be compatible with his 100%, so you can have both his javelins plus mine and the other throwing weapons if you want!

Character Behaviors Enhanced By ZartarThe throwing weapons can be thrown on horseback when paired with the mounted casting feature of Zartar's Character Behaviors Enhanced. If using the FNIS optional and the "Max Compatibility" version of CBE, the alternate throwing animations will also work as of version 3.04. Let my behavior files overwrite Zartar's and it should work.

=====Bugs:=====When equipping a crossbow after equipping a throwing weapon or vice versa, there may be a bug where a throwing weapon (usually a smoke bomb) may be automatically equipped or the throwing weapon will be loaded into the crossbow. To prevent this bug, I highly recommend using the "arrow version" optional file if you plan on using the crossbow mainly and not the bow. If you plan on using the bow, stick with the main file.

==========Changelog:==========G.04:Overhauled the 1st person nifs and throwing animations to look better because Gopher... :PAdded equip animations and changed the idle to match the Vanilla 1-handed idleIncreased throwing speed for weapons and decreased them for grenadesChanged the damage formula to better match vanilla damageAdded non-scripted leveled list optionsAdded an MCMAdded a fomod installerFixed a bug regarding ammo recovery. Special thanks to christianerding2 for helping me figure out how.Various small improvements and bug fixes

3.04:Changed the ammo type from arrows to bolts to prevent bow-related bugsChanged the quiver models to improved pre-3.02 models to prevent bugs related to ammo pickup and replacing one-handed weaponsTweaked crafting formulas and weapon gold values to be more balancedReduced number of grenades on banditsReduced throwing knife weight to 0.1Fixed a bug with the alternate 1st person animation behavior files that caused the crossbow to not workTweaked the FNIS script to allow alternate animations to trigger while riding a horse or dragon

3.03beta:Added alternate 1st person animation behavior files and tweaked scripts to work with that

3.02:Merged the FNIS esp into the main file and rescripted areas to maintain FNIS-optionalityFully integrated ammo items for NPCs so that weapon quivers now show up on NPCsAmmo items can now be interacted with and seen in follower inventoriesFixed the empty magic effect warning for the ammo recipe spellsChanged the quiver models to be out-of-the-box compatible with Chesko's belt-fastened quiversFixed the player alias script to try and prevent the Bound Bow unequip bugAdded stagger effect to knives and tweaked the axe staggerVarious fixes and tweaks under the hood

3.01 (Mini-update):Changed the event used to handle ammo under the hood to be more reliable

3.00 (Major overhaul of mod):Weapons are now ammunition with weight and wearable quiversWeapons can now only be equipped in the right handThrowing costs stamina and damage is now dependent on itReworked the effects so that javelins stagger and don't slowFixed the "throw back" feature/bug where enemies get the weapons upon being hitTweaked weapon damage to hopefully scale betterRemoved meltdown/reverse engineering recipes due to new implementationTweaked frequencies in leveled lists so that grenades are rarerAdded "craft grenade" power so that grenades can be crafted without needing an alchemy tableFormulas are now consumable books that add the recipes to the "craft grenade" powerNerfed oil pot damageBuffed smoke bombs to have a larger radiusAdded and tweaked h1zchan's replacer animations for better aestheticsScrapped the old throwing knife meshes for the shiv version

2.01 (Mini-update):Made throwing weapons weightless to prevent overencumbering upon being hitReduced the duration of the Frost Potion items and increased their damageTweaked leveled lists so that grenades and recipes are rarer

2.0:Tweaked the damage and sneak attack bonuses for throwing weapons so that they were less overpowered when dual-wielded and sneaking.Made the damage reduction caused by armor more significant in the damage formulas for the throwing weapons.Tweaked the crafting recipes for throwing weapons so that fewer are made per unit.Increased the throwing weapons' weights to be more on par with vanilla iron weapons.Fixed the texture issue that affected some users.Fixed the throwing weapon projectiles so that they now work with killcams.Added four new grenade weapons and the accompanying recipes and items needed to make them.Gave the alchemy table a menu option for crafting and reverse-engineering.

1.0:First Nexus Release.Replaced all placeholder meshes from Madrilous's "Throwing Weapons Redux" with new custom made meshes and textures built from the ground up.Changed the weapon and projectile nifs so that collision objects would make proper weapon sounds on being dropped

0.1 (Beta):First Release on Steam

======Media:======Demo of the mod's features using Version 0.1 (Beta) that was released on Steam

Demo of the mod's features using Version 2.0

Nozi87's feature of Version 1.0 at 1:51

Demo of the mod's features using Version 3.0

========Credits:========Madrilous for the inspiration for this modNyQuilKY for his spinning "Throwing Weapons Redux" nifs off of which I based the nifs for this mod fromh1zchan for the new throwing animations from 2.02 BETA which can be found hereHothtrooper and Eckss for making available the source code for "Immersive Armors" from which I learned how to dynamically add items to leveled listsOusnius for making the nif converter for Skyrim Special Edition which my mod neededFore for making FNIS and providing WONDERFUL documentation on how to make a FNIS dependent mod and alternate animation informationZartar for his Behavior Tool which made alternate 1st Person Animations possibleChristianerding2 for his information on how to fix an ammo recovery bug for version G.04Gopher for inspiring me to continue development of this mod and making very entertaining Let's Play videosThe SKSE Team for making Papyrus scripting more powerfulschlangster and the SkyUI team for SkyUI and the ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL documentation of the development kit for itwhoever contributes to the Creation Kit wiki for providing documentation on Papyrus functions which Bethesda for some reason were too lazy to document and finally Bethesda for Skyrim, Creation Kit, and for making this game moddable because it would kinda be a crappy game if it weren't... :P